Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-05

a wholesale hat house to our dealers
in that line.
An elegant line of soft and stiff
hats, in new spring styles, just re-
ceived by J. G. M. Ross g. Son.
We have received from Col. Saw
age copies of Gov. Bates Message to
the General Assembly, and the Bien-
NAL Report Of the Comptroller in
pamphlet form. '-l - a't
"A large assortment of silk and
linen handkerchiefs, for ladies and
gents, at O. M. Thurman & Sons.
About twenty negroes passed up
the road to Sparta last Tuesday to
work on the Bon Air extension, and
half car load of mules went up the
following day to be used in the same
work.
Ideal White Soap, the best laun-
dry soap on the market, sold at ]. H.
Cummins; and silyer-plated spoon
or butter knife given away with each
bar. Try it.
Two car loads of mules were ship
ped from this place last Tuesday one
by Houchin & Biles, to Selma, Ala,
and the other by G. w. Womack, to
Vicksburg, Miss.
"A number of towns all around
McMinnville have suffered and are
now suffering with measles. We have
escaped SO far, and it is to be hoped
that we will continue as fortunate.
-Womack & Colville are now clos
ing out their stock of ladies Cloaks,
Wraps, and Jackets atcost. You will
lose bargain if you don't call on
them.
We will open next week a beauti-
full assortment of prints and ging-
hams, new styles.
]. G. M. Ross & Son.
MIR. A. G. Green, of Indianapolis,
spent two or three days of this week
here interviewing our business men
about electric lights. We do not
think he met with much encourage
ment.
-McMinnville's boom is now being
manufactured to order. When it is
completed and starts to roaring it will
drown out the noise of all the little
boomlets for a hundred miles or so
around.
1t almost makes one see snakes
to look at all the big SIS posted up
around town. Swift's Specific man
was in town the other day. 1t is a
fine tonic, and pleasanter to take than
mean whisky.
Col. j. II. Hughes received a
telegram Wednesday morning an
nouncing that his son-in-law, Mr.. j.
Fl. FRANKIE, of Atlanta, Ga, was
dead. Col. Hughes left on the after
noon train for that city. The death
was very sudden and unex pected,
and we have not yet learned the par
ticulars.
The Manchester Times is giving
the business men of that place some
plain talk about their failure to
patronize their home paper. He re-
ceived less than one hundred dollars
from the merchants of that place for
advertising last year. A town is GER
tainly in bad way when its own
newspaper acknowledge that it is
dead.
Some fifteen or twenty citizens OF
this place and vicinity started to
Nashville last Monday, being sum.
moned there as witnesses in the
Macon case. A telegram was received
at Tullahoma notifying them that the
case had been postponed. Several o.
the party returned home from Tulla.
homa, but the majority of them pur'
sued their journey to the City o.
Rocks and spent day or two there
"A number Of engineering partie;
are at work surveying out different
sections of a new railroad from Mem
phis to Knoxville, and we learn thai
a preliminary survey of a route has
been made from Knoxville to the
Caney Fork Falls, in this county. /
can be put down as a fixed fact tina
a new railroad will be built through
Tennessee from east to west within
the next few years, and the road viii
in all probability be built from Mem
phis, via Nashville, to Bristol. If
does not cross the road from Tullaho
ma to Bon Air, it will run so neal
that a branch will soon DO built from
some point on this line to the new